From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: Montreal-based Roland Lescure—Chief Investment Officer for the US$152 billion Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec—talks with aiCIO about diversification, its failings, and what this means for investment circa 2011.
From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: Every decade produces an investment manager that captures the spirit of its times. To come to terms with the elephant in the room in the risk-averse world of corporate pension plans, look no further than St. Louis, Missouri.
The Consultant Corner From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: Are buy lists constructed in a fair and reasonable way? Or, is there more that goes on behind closed doors?
From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: One public pension considers in-kind contributions.
From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: Following a disastrous summer for his hedge fund, is now the time to go long John Paulson?
From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: If the financial crisis exposed the Chicago School’s central economic theory -- the primacy of free markets unfettered by government intervention -- to be a False God, what will take its place? Joe Flood reports.
From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: Pierce, CIO of the US$23 billion UniSuper superannuation fund, spoke with our Woman in Australia about a rising Australian dollar environment, the restructuring of the fund’s illiquid asset allocation—and why government-made incentives in the infrastructure market will have a negligible impact on institutional investor decisionmaking.
From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: Editor-in-Chief Kip McDaniel on the public pension uproar.
From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: Should asset owners be investing with managers that place so much weight on a single individual’s shoulders? Benjamin Ruffel reports.
From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: Charles Millard on what Dodd-Frank proposed reforms mean for pensions.
From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: Does the NFL offer a playbook for the rest of the economy? A review by Editor-at-Large Joe Flood.
From aiCIO Magazine's Fall 2011 Issue: Tai, who together with her investment team oversees upward of $35 billion in defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) assets scattered around the globe, spoke with aiCIO on Hewlett-Packard's well-timed liability-driven investing (LDi) move, as well as the rigors of managing DB alongside DC.